Stocking.



P'ATENTED FEB. 6, 1906.

. I. H. PEDDEN.

STOCKING. APPLIOATIONIFILEDYOOT. 9, 190a.

INVENTKOR JlualFezlzZem BY WWW ATTORNEY WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PiiiENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. FEDDEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS A. OCALLAGHAN, OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

STOCKING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb fi, 1906- My invention relates to improvements in hosiery; and the same has for its object more -particularly to provide a stocking so constructed that the same may be used and worn iii combination with any supporting device which is worn suspended from or near the waist of the wearer and adapted for engagement with the holding member of said supporting device without danger of injuring p the fabric of the stocking.

In practice it has been found that the use of suspended stocking-supporters provided with attaching members adapted for frictional or other engagement with the fabric of the stocking engage such a very limited area of the fabric that the tension thereon due to the elastic ofthe supporter and the strain due to the moving of the limbs and body of the wearer have the effect to draw unduly upon a few of the longitudinal threads directly in line of the strain and cause the same to be drawn throughout the full length of the stocking and then break and produce openings which render a stocking otherwise servieeable wholly unfit for wear. This has been found to occur almost immediately in the case of delicate or open-work fabrics and within a very short time in the case of heavier fabrics.

Now b means of my invention, which consists in t e novel details of construction and in the combination, connection, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and then pointed out in the claims, I am enabled to attain the objects specified and overcome the disadvantages hereinabove pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, wherein like letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a: view illustrating a stocking made according to and embodying my invention, showing the manner of supporting the same upon the limb of the wearer. Fig. 2 is a front view of the upper portion of a stocking, showing the relative positions of the attaching portions thereon. Fig. 3 is a section, greatly enlarged, taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a side view of the upper portion of a stocking, showing a modified shape of attaching portion; and Fig. 5 is a sectional view similar to Fig. 3, showing the attaching portion secured thereto by sewing.

In said drawings, A designates a stocking of usual general construction provided at or near its upper edge upon its outer side near its front with attaching portions B B. These portions B B, I have shown as of a triangular form, with their downwardly-inclined edges a a firmly secured to or incorporated into the fabric of the stocking A and their upper edges arranged parallel to the upper edge of the stocking, but entirel free therefrom, as shown at Fig. 3, so t at said portions B B 'may be grasped between the fingers to produce a fold 1), adapted to be engaged by the attaching member C of the supporter D. By means of this attaching portion B, which is preferably made heavier than the body of the stocking, the tension of the elastic supporter D and the strain due to the movement of the liinbs or body of the wearer is distributed over a considerable area and instead of drawingonly longitudinall of the stocking has a further. tendency to d faw the upper edge of the stocking laterally togetherthat is to say, the portion of the fabric of the stocking adjoining the upper ends of the inclined edges a aof the portions B will be caused to approach each other, and thus hold the upper edge of the stocking snugly against the limb.

In the modification illustrated at Fig. 4 I

' have shown the ortion B similarl Y secured to the stocking A, but with its apex cut away, and at Fig. 5 l have shown the portion B secured to the stocking A along the inclined edges (1 (L2 of said portion by means of rows of stitching c c,

It will of course be understood that the portions B B may be secured by weaving, sewing, or otherwise either upon the outer or the inner surface of the stocking and that va rious other forms may be devised to suit the particular form of attaching device in connection with which the same is to be used, it being merely essential that the said portions be so securcd to the stocking as to permit of their being easily grasped between the fingers for securing the same to the attaching devices and that their shape and method of attachment to the, stocking be such as will most effectually distribute the strain. 7

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new,,and desire to secureby Let.-

te'rs Patent, is-

1. A stocking having secured thereto an attaching portion for a garterclaspdprovided with upwardly-divergent sides to istribute the strain upon the stocking material.

2. A stocking having at its upper end attaching portions for garter-clasps, said attaching portions diverging fromtheir lower central points toward their upper edges to distribute the strain upon the stocking ma terial.

3. A stocking having a'ttaching portions imposed thereon adjacent to its upper end,

and'having inclined sides, securedto said 4 stocking, and a horizontal upper edge free therefrom, substantially as specified.

4. A stocking having a lurality ofattaching portions imposed t ereon having incline substantially as specified.

ing portions of triangular outline imposed thereon and incorporated into the same, and united at their inclined edges with said stocking, and having their bases on a line with the upper edge of the stocking but-free therefrom t 6. The combination 1n a hose of a leg por- 'tion having a topedge or open end in a plane transverse to t e general axial line of the limb of the wearer when the hose is in use, of

a pair of attaching devices carried thereby 1 and having lines of securement on the leg adjacent to and below such top and diverging theretoward and ending in free edges at the edge of the said leg portion and adapted I when engaged by a fastener and under the influence of a supporter to circumferentially constrict the said top edge of the leg. portion stantiall'y as specified. Signed at the city upon the leg of the wearer in said plane, sub-- of New York, in the county and-State of ew York, this 7th day of October, 1903. p

' JOHN H. FEDDEN.

Witnesses: i.

F. SPENcER PERRY,

C. AUGUSTUS DIETERICH. 

